The People's Patriarch
Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 February 2026
- ISBN 9780197644751
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 239x167x31 mm
- Weight 785 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b&w halftones 700
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Short description:
The People's Patriarch tells the dramatic story of Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin), who became head of Russia's largest religious body, the Russian Orthodox Church, at the same moment as the Bolshevik Revolution. As militant atheists, the Bolsheviks sought to destroy the Church and eradicate religion, and castigated Tikhon as a “counterrevolutionary” for his valiant efforts to defend his faith. Utilizing previously classified documents from the top Bolshevik leadership and secret police, the book tells the story of Tikhon's heroic resistance to a totalitarian regime and provides an entirely new perspective on the Russian Revolution.
MoreLong description:
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier. The Council chose Tikhon (Bellavin), the son of a humble village parish priest, to be head of Russia's largest religious confession.
At the time, the majority of Orthodox Christians were devoutly religious. Tikhon's vision of the Church, which he began putting into practice during his years as the Orthodox bishop of North America (1898-1907), was that of an organic body which welcomed the participation of all believers. The Bolsheviks had other ideas. They aimed to create a revolution that would be carried out by the state on behalf of the people. And they sought to eradicate religion as “superstition” and not only to disestablish the Church, but to destroy it altogether. Although the alternate Russia which Tikhon represented would be crushed by the superior force of the Bolsheviks, he helped navigate the Church through immense challenges so that, in the end, the Orthodox Church outlived the Soviet experiment.
The People's Patriarch tells the story of the clash of visions for the new Russia in 1917 through the lens of the humble man chosen to lead the Church, whose life exemplifies the transformations within the Orthodox Church in late Imperial Russia and its fate during the Revolution. The People's Patriarch is the first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's most important Orthodox Christian leaders, based on an exhaustive use of previously untapped primary sources, including Tikhon's letters and encyclicals, previously classified documents from the top Bolshevik leadership and Soviet secret police, and materials from a dozen archives in five countries.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Beginnings (1865-1898)
Bishop of the Aleutians (1898-1903)
Archbishop of North America (1904-1907)
Yaroslavl-Vilna-Moscow (1907-1917)
The Patriarch and the October Revolution (1917-1918)
Neither Red nor White: The Civil War (1918-1920)
Famine and the Confiscation of Church Valuables (1921-April 1922)
The Case Against Tikhon (May 1922-June 1923)
Interlude: Transnational Orthodoxy (1917-1925)
Rebuilding the Church (1923-1925)
Conclusions
